My message is to forget about dichotomies. The 'Brain Opera' is an opera, even if it does not tell a story in the usual way. It is a psychological journey with voice - so I do consider it an opera. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I think part of the bad thing is that skill is emphasized so much that a lot of people, by the time they get to Juilliard, well I think they kind of forget why they got into music in the… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Music seems to stimulate more parts of our mind than almost every other activity. It combines more parts of our minds. It synchronizes our… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I love the cello, I love the physical sense of an instrument that's about the size of your body that vibrates enough that even… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
You have to train your mind and your ears, but they're more like athletic skills. So, part of music you just have to learn… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I went to the University of California, Santa Cruz for a year, which turned out to be a really vibrant, very intensive intellectual atmosphere… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how it's… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Perhaps 25 to 50 years from now, I can design a piece of music, no so that it appeals to something common in millions… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument.… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
There were a lot of things happen in the mid-'80's that all of a sudden made it possible to do a lot of very… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
One of my interests in music has always been what it means, why it affects us the way it does. — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
The Beatles realized that what they were making in the studio could never be performed. And they had already given up on performing because… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
I love Bach, I love Beethoven, I love Mozart, I love the Beatles, I love you know, Stockhausen, I love many things. But for… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
